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May 2011

Not surprisingly, news of Osama Bin Laden’s death resulted in a major spike in Internet traffic as users flocked to news sites for the latest information. Akamai’s Net Usage Index, which measures traffic to top news sites for which Akamai delivers co...

Each Monday, Mashable highlights an exclusive new video or song. Check out all our Music Monday picks. There are a lot of stereotypes out there about musician archetypes (lead singers are jerks, drummers are hyperactive, etc.). But Rubik defies all t...

When big news breaks, spammers and malware creators get busy with black hat SEO campaigns. And news doesn't get much bigger than the death of the most hunted man in the world. New popular search terms like "Osama bin Laden death" are a vulnerable tar...

Can the world’s business leaders apply their creativity and financial acumen to help pull 2 billion people out of poverty? That’s the challenge put forth by a Dartmouth professor and a veteran marketer, who are soliciting designs for a $300 house. Th...

Newspapers around the country are covered with full color photos and enormous headlines for the news of Osama bin Laden's death. And the demand to see Monday's front pages is high -- so high that the Newseum's gallery of front pages crashed Monday mo...

The White House is streaming a briefing with Press Secretary Jay Carney and members of the president's national security team. Details have been slowly leaking out about the operation that took out Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. While we now know a lit...

Don't be surprised to find extra copies -- or even extra editions -- of newspapers this Monday, as media outlets continue providing coverage of Osama bin Laden's death. The New York Times and The Washington Post were among those newspapers that produ...

If you're looking for some music to liven up your Monday, head to Ra Ra Riot's Songza station. Every person who "fans" the station will earn $0.50 for Oxfam America. Streaming music service Songza has partnered with Oxfam before, organizing listening...

The death of Osama Bin Laden was one of the most tweeted events in history -- and generated the highest sustained rate of tweets ever. Twitter has released updated statistics on the usage of its platform last night. Previously, the social media compa...

With smartphones projected to take over feature phones in the United States this year, there are a lot of people walking around with cameras in their pockets. And so, an abundance of apps has launched recently to cater to all the smartphone owners wh...

Twenty-four year-old Brandon Fletcher is the amateur executive producer behind YouTube reality dating show Date Unknown, a four-year-old show looking to graduate from YouTube obscurity to small screen fame. The show, relaunching Monday after a modest...

Facebook’s business is growing faster than the company had predicted a few months ago, leading to speculation that its IPO could be in the $100 billion range, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal, citing people who've seen Facebook’s recent...

The death of Osama bin Laden has sparked interest not only in the details of his demise, but also Pakistan, September 11 and American flags, search traffic on Yahoo suggests. Yahoo reports that searches for "Osama Bin Laden" spiked 98,550% Sunday eve...

Ray Velez is the CTO at Razorfish, and the editor of new technology report, Razorfish 5: Five Technologies That Will Transform Your Business. In this era of constant connectivity and tracking, we are creating huge amounts of data every second. Just l...

A newly relaunched Music on Facebook Page is lending credence to the claims of music pundits -- that the social network is now the best place for bands to reach fans and promote themselves. Music on Facebook first launched in 2008 during SXSW as a wa...

Alex Taussig is a principal at Highland Capital Partners, where he invests in early stage technology companies. He blogs frequently at infinitetoventure, and you can find him on Twitter at @ataussig. I probably spend too much time on the Internet. An...

Research in Motion (RIM) unveiled two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones and BlackBerry 7 OS on Monday, in addition to announcing new Facebook and video chat apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook. On paper, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones look ...

I spend a lot of time browsing travel sites for vacations I'd love to take if I had time (well, and the funds) to do so. As Facebook Pages become more widespread, many of these hotels and airlines are actively luring me and other wayfarers to check o...

Politicians and publications have been wrestling with the unfortunate similarities between the names "Obama" and "Osama" since at least 2007. But journalists around the world hadn't been forced to repeatedly mention both names in the same sentence --...

Maria Ogneva is the Head of Community at Yammer, where she is in charge of social media, community programs, internal education and engagement. You can follow her on Twitter, her blog, and via Yammer's Twitter account and company blog. As more busine...

The White House posted several images of President Barack Obama and staffers planning and reviewing updates from the military raid that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden. The White House Flickr account has been used extensively during the Obama a...

We've known for a couple weeks that Twitter may have acquired TweetDeck; we're now hearing that acquisition may be confirmed this week. TechCrunch is reporting the deal will be officially announced within "the next few days." The Wall Street Journal ...

After Sunday night's announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, crowds flooded Ground Zero in New York City to celebrate the al-Qaeda founder's demise. As you can see in the above embed, the event was widely captured on video. In fact, videos...

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Here are some tips on how to network, share your information and/or promote your event(s) using social media: The Future of Event Planning...

What a difference 10 years make. In the past 24 hours, a resource we didn't even have a decade ago has become a primary medium -- not only for finding out about important news but also for sharing it and reacting to it. News of terrorist Osama bin La...

The Hangover Part II doesn’t hit theaters until May 26, but consumers can start playing along Monday in a SCVNGR promotion at 7-Eleven. The convenience store chain is hosting a mobile scavenger hunt based on the application. To play, consumers downlo...

Social news site XYDO, launching publicly Tuesday, aims to prioritize and organize online news based on each user's social graph and interests. "What we're trying to do with XYDO is build a social network around news," explains co-founder Cameron Bra...

Adobe has just broken the seal on Creative Suite 5.5, the latest installment of its design and development software. Of course, the new release brings the usual round-up of improvements and tweaks, but the fireworks in CS5.5 lie in the suite's new HT...

Google has topped a list of the most reputable companies in the U.S., according to a Harris Interactive poll. Harris Interactive asked more than 30,000 respondents to identify the 60 most visible companies in the U.S. and rate them based on 20 differ...

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